Whitman County
Founded: November 29, 1871 |
Whitman County
Sheriff's Office
North 411 Mill Street
Colfax, WA 99111
Phone: 509.397.5622
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Whitman County is a county located in the U.S. state of
Washington. It is named after Marcus Whitman, a Presbyterian
missionary who, with his wife Narcissa, was killed in 1847
by members of the Cayuse tribe of Native Americans. It is
part of the Palouse, a wide and rolling prairie-like region
of the middle Columbia basin. According to Heart of
Washington, Whitman County produces more barley, wheat, dry
peas and lentils than any other county in the United States.
As of 2007, the estimated population was 42,700, of which approx.
26,000 live in Pullman. The county seat is at Colfax. Its
largest city is Pullman, home to Washington State University
and to Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories.
Whitman County was formed out of Stevens County on November
29, 1871.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total
area of 2,178 square miles, of which, 2,159 square miles of
it is land and 18 square miles of it (0.84%) is water. The
population density is 18 per square mile.
| Principal Communities: |
- Albion
- Colfax (County Seat)
- Colton
- Endicott
- Farmington
- Garfield
- La Crosse
- Lamont
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- Malden
- Oakesdale
- Palouse
- Pullman
- Rosalia
- St. John
- Tekoa
- Uniontown
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